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Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by hazelcough »

cookrn wrote: post #40

I love the abstract and colorful look. It actually is really nice without being based on code! Some more code samples for people to click through could be fun to play around with too. Have you printed one for yourself yet? A photo of you wearing a shirt would be wonderful. dojo4 [1] (Boulder, CO) built and subsequently took down a similar product called Speakteesy [2] last year. It's really hard to get the pricing re…

Yep, here's me wearing a shirt: http://cl.ly/image/220r1g463W00

re: shirts.io, yeah I'm using their successor, scalablepress.com. The API is much better now.

Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by cookrn »

hazelcough wrote: post #41
cookrn wrote: post #40

I love the abstract and colorful look. It actually is really nice without being based on code! Some more code samples for people to click through could be fun to play around with too. Have you printed one for yourself yet? A photo of you wearing a shirt would be wonderful. dojo4 [1] (Boulder, CO) built and subsequently took down a similar product called Speakteesy [2] last year. It's really hard to get the pricing re…

Yep, here's me wearing a shirt: http://cl.ly/image/220r1g463W00 re: shirts.io, yeah I'm using their successor, scalablepress.com. The API is much better now.

Sweet! The pattern of the code reminds me of morse code too :D

Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by dshanahan »

hazelcough wrote: post #29
Throwaway12830 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After seeing the proof, I was still confused what I would receive, and thought maybe the blocks were placeholders for the text that would appear in the final print. You should definitely make this more clear, because the phrasing on the site gives the impression you'll get the actual code. Without a doubt you'll get lots of requests for refunds if this isn't adjusted.

Yep--thanks for the tip. I've added a bunch of warnings all around, and reached out to folks who ordered with a clarification :).

It was clear to me what I'd get. Awesome project.

Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by selmnoo »

hazelcough wrote: post #39
selmnoo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, thanks for answering. I hope you won't mind if I pick your brain&ways a little more. So, some questions: 1) Are you doing this white-label? 2) Is this a "passive income" side-project, or something you've put a lot of time to? (Well, it's clear that you've put a lot of time to it... it's a beautiful finished product in every way, but I'm still curious to know how much effort has been put into this) 3) Are you wo…

1) There's no branding on the shirt at all. The shirt is shipped from Scalable Press, so I'm not sure what the packaging will say, but I imagine they have something in place for white-labelling. 2) "Passive income" side project, though with all the HN hate it's turning into a bit more scrambling than I'd imagined :). 3) I do ask them questions since I'm a pretty early user of the API, but it's pretty well-documented…

Thanks for answering questions.

Please don't mind the 'HN hate', we're a nit-picky bunch. Remember that almost always you can make it better.

The current upset seems to be about confusion as to whether shirts will have actual code or not on them -- give the folks who've ordered some sort of a clarification note, and hope for the best.

Regardless, this was a pretty nifty project. I give it a 9/10 (1 pt. lost for lacking UX in some areas and slight misrepresentation of product, but I know your next project, whatever it'll be, will more than make up for it :))

Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by hazelcough »

ZoF wrote: post #33

Hey, this is super cool! Genuinely think you would generate much more interest(and less confusion/knee-jerk anger) if you had the option of having the code printed on the shirt overlaying the blocks. I'd definitely be interested.

Yep, this is now implemented! Thanks for the input.

Re: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet

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Post by selmnoo »

hazelcough wrote: post #45
ZoF wrote: post #33

Hey, this is super cool! Genuinely think you would generate much more interest(and less confusion/knee-jerk anger) if you had the option of having the code printed on the shirt overlaying the blocks. I'd definitely be interested.

Yep, this is now implemented! Thanks for the input.

This was crazy fast, that you were able to implement this so quickly after getting feedback from HN (and replying to our questions and queries at the same time).

Kudos is all I have to say. I wish I had those skills!

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